Prosody and Brain Lateralization: Fact vs Fancy or Is It All Just Semantics?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 338-339

  Ross, Elliott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSODY; SEMANTICS;

BRAIN DISEASES; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LATERALITY;

EID: 0023882246     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1988.00520270120030     Document Type: Article

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